These are the notes for Truman Day 6...

1. Truman Foreign Policy “Let’s Keep
Score”
1. UN Established June 26, 1945 (Tie)
Agreed to at Yalta in February 1945 w/big 3…
April 1945, 50 Nations met in San Francisco
HQ in New York
Permanent Members-US, UK, China, USSR, France
2. US Drops Atomic Bombs (Win)
Hiroshima August 6th
Nagasaki August 9th

2. 3. German Occupation (Tie)
Potsdam Conference-
splits Germany into 4
Occupation Zones
US, UK, France (West
Germany)
USSR (East Germany
Also Split Berlin (4
Zones)
Promised to crush
NAZI party
Nuremberg Trials-
sentenced 11 to death

3. 4. Japanese Occupation (Win)
Only US controlled the
rebuilding of Japan
Did not want to split
Japan like Germany
Create a Democratic
government
Supreme Commander
Douglas MacArthur
He wrote the constitution
Not militaristic!
No more weapons/army

4. 5. Eastern Europe (Loss)
Right after the war, Stalin
takes the Baltic States
 Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
Stalin’s Promise of Free
Elections in Eastern
Europe
 Went back on promises at
Yalta
Iron Curtain Speech-
Winston Churchill,
Missouri
“An iron curtain has
descended across
Europe…”

5. 6. Containment Policy
Authored by George
Kennan
Fundamentally changes
US Foreign Policy forever
Learned our lesson from
WWII
Appeasement @ Munich
Soviets want to expand,
we need to push them
back!

6. Truman Doctrine
Announced March 12,
1947
“It must be the policy of
the United States to
support free peoples
from conquest or
subjugation by outside
pressures.”
What does this mean???

7. Marshall Plan
European Recovery Act
April 3, 1948
Aid package to prevent
the countries of Western
Europe from turning to
communism
$12 Billion to France &
Italy to stay strong and
free
$400 million to Greece &
Turkey
By 1950, W. European
industrial production

8. North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO)
July 12, 1949
9 Western European
nations, US, Canada
1st time in US history
where we joined into a
“defensive alliance”
“If any one country is
attacked it is regarded as
an attack on all.”
Supreme Commander-
Dwight Eisenhower

9. National Security Act (1947)
July 26, 1947
Created the Department
of Defense
All Military Forces
under 1 Command
Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs
Created Central
Intelligence Agency
Replaces the OSS –
collection of
information abroad…

10. 7. Greece and Turkey (Win)
1st true application of
containment!
Why here?
USSR wanted a warm
water port into the
Mediterranean
Test the resolve of the
US!
Britain could no longer
support Greece
Gave $400 million under
Marshall Plan to keep